The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-03-16
HOME AND FARM.

The kitchen window is the best OF
all windows for plants; the steam from
boilers and kettles keeps the air moist
"A prolific tree of salable apples
brings much more money from the
ground it occupies than It would with
most farm crops.
Crisp vegetables have as much
effect on the relish of cows dinner as
does celery, or some green fruit on
mans dinner An occasional feed OF
sugar beets or other vegetables. helps
the appetite; and digestion. in part, by
tho increase of saliva secreted.-
Wester1a Rural.
Bleaching: For new muslin or yell
low cloths allow for thirty yards OF
cloth one and a half pounds chloride
of lime; put in bag and dissolve in
enough cold water to cover the cloth.
Rinse. Scald yellow blankets in suds
made of white soap and ammonia
Cincinnati Times.
--Rump Steak la Mode: Put the
steak in sauc epan with sliced
onion, a little whole allspice, two bay
leaves, pepper, salt, a teaspoonful Of
Drowned bread crumbs or grated
crusts, and sufficient vinegar diluted
with water to cover it; stew gently for
two or three hours, according to the
weight of the meat. This dish is ex-
cellent cold.
How to induce cattle to eat corn
stalks is difficulty that has been over
come by a Maine farmer, who
sprinkled hot brine over the stalks.
The cornstalks are fed, with the fodder
and husks, without cutting, and if we'll
cured, he says the stock will leave but
little uueaten. 1t is more ecomical,
however, to pass them through fod-
| der-cutter.
"A cheap and convenient disinfect-
ant for poultry houses may be pre-
| pared by mixing one bushel of finely
sifted dirt and one pound of chloride
of lime. If fine tobacco dust be added
it will assist in preventing lice. The
dirt SO prepared may be busted over
the floors or in any portion of the
| poultry house, and it will greatly assist
in keeping off disease and vermin.
The cost is but trife.-M g. Farmer.
The following recipe for keeping
moths out of clothing is favorite in
some families: Mix half u pint Of
alcohol, the same quantity of spirits of
turpentine and two ounces of camphor.
Keep in stone bottle, and shake be-
fore using The clothes or furs are to
be wrapped in linen, and crumpled up
pieces of blotting paper dipped in the
| liquid are to be placed in y box with
them, SO that it smells strong. This
requires renewing about once year.
-Kesiah's Sponge Cake: Beat the
yolks of three eggs well, and the whites
until they pile up in snowy mass;
put these with one heaping cup of fine
sugar; beat FIVE minutes at least. Thor
oughly mix one heaping teaspoonful of
| baklnS-PoWder In one cup OF sl1ted
flour and beat ten minutes, add one
half-cup of cold water, beat in evenly,
add one cup more flour, beat again, and
bake in deep pan in quick oven. -
| GoOf Cheer.
Rotating crops and turning under
vegetable matter is manuring in itself,
| Sc H., \ g.
is permanent if regularly kept up. We
see land that has been annually heavily
and extensively fertilized with COM
mercial fertilizers that is getting more
exhausted every year. I account for it
in this way, that the land lacks humus
| (decayed vegetation), and without
humus, manures do but little good.
Georgia Cor. Dirie Farmer.